Jittery

[cjsmith]

It's just past noon and I should probably be hungry. It would be convenient to be hungry now, since in twenty minutes I'm going to leave for an appointment and I'm not going to have another chance to eat lunch until two.

Instead, my stomach feels... not truly bad, but not quite right. It feels almost like stage fright: I'm jittery and almost nervous, I have too much energy but no focus, I want to get up and walk down the hall but I don't know where I'd be going or why, and I can't think. My breathing is shallow until I notice and take a few slow deep breaths; the next time I notice, it's faster and shallow again.

This must be what happens when I have chocolate cake.

I did scrape all the frosting off it. I'm not a complete idiot. And I didn't have much; I took a slice that would, if formed in a different shape, have been smaller than a donut.

This is awful.

Note to self: next time you think chocolate cake at 9:30 would be a spectacular way to have a healthy breakfast, go read this entry, 'kay? UGH.

Deep breaths. There ya go. Again; good. At least you didn't have caffeine. Things could be so much worse.

Comments

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

Can we start some kind of warning system that is connected to a database of acts with evil results? I don't have the technical points worked out. But, if I stay up past 11 pm it would start to replay my voice describing how lousy I feel if I don't sleep -- and me swearing I'd not gonna make this sort of needless stupid mistake again. It's like with the cake -- you'd think I haven't done this dozens of times, like I don't know the consequences. Of course, the warning system has to know to warn YOU for cake and ME for staying up late, and be able to detect when danger is near. Sort of, um, an external brain.

However, somehow I do generally remember that coffee is dangerous -- use with great caution.

Is your foot pain caused by inflammation?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

An external brain sure would be useful. Maybe it could give us little electric shocks when we disobey our own directives.

My best guess is that no, my foot pain is not caused by inflammation, because no anti-inflammatory measures (dietary, hot/cold baths, supplements, or drugs) have ever affected it. Too bad. Inflammation may not be perfectly understood, but it sure is something we know how to fight.